Wednesday, August 8

caterpillar HNT

Early in the summer, this splendid caterpillar was getting fat in my garden, and was already longer than my finger. I'm not sure which end is the front, probably the pointy end, just like humans.




After this photo was taken I adminstered humane euthanasia under my shoe. The insides are actually just as colourful.


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See also all the old half baked thursday posts.

PS - Can anyone explain why the dementia arithmetic doesn't add up? I may have to ask at the blog I stole it from.
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21 comments:

  1. Anonymous9 August 2007 at 06:51

    I say!

    I recommend baking the bugs at a low temperature for half an hour. Taste delicious, and rather nutty. Nothing at all like chicken, elephant or ostrich. You don't even need any ndiwo with them.

    MM III

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  2. rob9 August 2007 at 10:28

    I imagine they're like cheese twizzels without the additives. Does doviko round them up for you?

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  3. Jessica9 August 2007 at 10:34

    OMG.... I almost choked on my soda when I read the "humanely admistered euthenasia"

    Happy HNT!!

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  4. ion9 August 2007 at 17:29

    What a honey! Looking closely, there's a little spike on her rear end (the fatter end), which helps identify her as a hawk moth caterpillar (Sphingidae family). I think she's Hippotion rosetta.
    http://tpittaway.tripod.com/china/h_ros.htm

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  5. Anonymous9 August 2007 at 20:42

    I say!

    Is there nothing ion doesn't know something about? Very impressive.

    Bugs are a delicacy in climates less wet than Kalimbuka, such as the Place of Thirst.

    MM III

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  6. ion10 August 2007 at 03:40

    I had a hunch it was a hawkmoth caterpillar because of the dorsal spike and the prominent 'eyes', but it took the internet to pin down the Linnaean name. I know practically nothing about Africa, quasars, engineering or cricket! Please educate us about 'ndiwo'.

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  7. rob10 August 2007 at 07:06

    good work ion, I was just goig to say that myself. But how did you manage to sex her?

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  8. tkkerouac10 August 2007 at 07:40

    eww, I bet the guts were colourful, Happy HNT!

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  9. Anonymous10 August 2007 at 07:51

    wow, that looks like alice in wonderland shit...

    did you take a picture of the bottom of you shoe???

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  10. Regal10 August 2007 at 08:19

    Happy HNT

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  11. Lee Ann10 August 2007 at 08:58

    OH MY GOSH!!!!
    That has to be the BIGGEST caterpillar I have EVER seen! GROSS!
    It gives me the heebie jeebies.

    Happy HNT!

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  12. Anonymous10 August 2007 at 09:01

    Pffff.... Tell me now if that thing ever asked for euthanasia!!!!
    I had love to see it after the transformation... ;-)

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  13. Hotboy10 August 2007 at 09:07

    Albert? You killed it?!! What for? Did you eat it? Do you just like killing little things? You can take the nazi out of Bavaria, but you can't take Bavaria .... dearie me. It'll come and squosh you back when you're dead! Hotboy

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  14. Polt10 August 2007 at 09:18

    well, if you gotta administer euthanasia, might as well do it humanely.

    HAPPY HNT!

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  15. Julie10 August 2007 at 12:13

    ok, that is one big caterpillar!! Did it crunch?? Ok, I can't believe I asked that.

    did it??

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  16. BTExpress11 August 2007 at 02:17

    Biggest one we have here is the tomato bug or something like that. They're only about 1/2 that size.

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  17. lecram sinun11 August 2007 at 05:17

    Dang that's huge! Cheers and Happy HNT!

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  18. Hotboy11 August 2007 at 22:12

    Albert! I still can't believe you killed that caterpillar. 15 billion years it took to get there and what did you do? Have you killed anything today so far? Just thought I'd ask. Hotboy

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  19. JM12 August 2007 at 00:59

    Bugs make me shiver.

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  20. ion12 August 2007 at 01:53

    Don't really know if she's a he or a she, but still gorgeous and most probably foul-tasting. She's gone for eye mimicry and anti-camouflage to boast her unpalatability. Many caterpillars (especially the anti-camouflaged, gaudy types) concentrate toxins from their host plants and taste quite horrid.

    I hope and doubt Rob really crushed this beauty, else he'd have told us all about the smell and the goo on his shoe.

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  21. S12 August 2007 at 09:33

    whyyyyyy OH whyyyyy did you kill that poor little thing?

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